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|individual name= Josiah
|image = Josiah.jpg
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|alias = Survey
|race=
|only  = Ghost Light (TV story)
|home planet=
|actor = Ian Hogg
|home era=
|appearances= [[Ghost Light]]
|actor= [[Ian Hogg]]
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'''Survey''', or, as he styled himself later, '''Josiah Samuel Smith''', was a long-lived being involved in [[Light (Ghost Light)|Light]]'s survey of [[distant past|ancient]] [[Earth]].


==Biography==
Josiah changed form to match the dominant species of the planet, leaving behind still-mobile and at least partially sentient [[Husk]]s.


'''Josiah''' is [[Light]]'s survey in [[Ghost Light]]. Light uses Josiah to survey life on earth for his Catalog. Josiah changes form to match the dominant species of the planet and every time he does so he leaves behind [[Husks]]. While on earth he retains the form of a victorian gentleman. Two years before the events of '''Ghost Light''', Josiah awakened in [[Light's ship]] that had landed in the celler of [[Gabriel Chase]]. He kills [[George Pritchard]] the owner of the house after he saw light's ship and he also put Inspector [[Mackenzie]] in a trance and placed him in a drawer after he was sent to find out about George's disapearence. He makes [[Lady Pritchard]] his housekeeper and her daughter, [[Gwendoline]] his ward. When Reverend [[Ernest Matthews]] comes to the house he is appaled by Josiah's theories of evoloution so Josiah feeds him bannanas and by some manner turns him into an ape.
With Light temporarily dormant, he adopted the form of a [[Victorian]] gentleman, living in the mansion called [[Gabriel Chase]] in [[Perivale]], which had a cellar in which [[Light's ship]] resided. By [[1883]], Josiah was the owner of Gabriel Chase, and with Mrs [[Pritchard (Ghost Light)|Pritchard]] and his "ward" [[Gwendoline Pritchard|Gwendoline]], servant [[Nimrod]] and house guest/prisoner [[Redvers Fenn-Cooper]], whom he trained as an assassin, presided over a distorted version of a well-to-do [[19th century]] household.
Josiah plans to revive the british empire by killing the Crowned Saxe-Coburg also known as
[[Queen Victoria]]. He hires [[Redvers Fenn-Cooper]] to do this for. When an invitation comes come to go to the palace the pair plan to go together and from there shoot the Queen. This plan is thwarted when Redvers decides to take [[Control]] instead. Josiah leaves the house using the now dispersed Light's ship.


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Josiah planned to take over the [[British Empire]] by having Fenn-Copper murder [[Queen]] [[Victoria]], using an invitation to meet her that he had somehow obtained. The plan was thwarted when Redvers decided to take [[Control (Ghost Light)|Control]] instead. After Control reverted Josiah to his former unevolved state as a form of punishment, he left Earth with the others in Light's ship. ([[TV]]: ''[[Ghost Light (TV story)|Ghost Light]]'')
 
==Behind the scenes==
* A scene set in Gabriel Chase's upper observatory featuring Josiah, Nimrod and Light was rehearsed for ''Ghost Light'' part three, but was cut from the script and never actually recorded. This featured Nimrod informing Josiah that he wishes to resign his position as butler; after Josiah storms off angrily, Light appears and tells Nimrod "I think we shall be late for dinner." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Ghost Light (script)|Doctor Who: The Scripts - Ghost Light]]'') However, [[Marc Platt]] reinstated this scene for the [[Ghost Light (novelisation)|novelisation]].
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Bannen Ian Bannen], [[Michael Caine]], [[John Carson]], [[Kenneth Colley]], [[Frank Finlay]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gothard Michael Gothard], [[Del Henney]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Hill Bernard Hill], [[Denis Lill]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Valentine Anthony Valentine] and [[David Warner]] were considered for the role before [[Ian Hogg]] was cast.
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Latest revision as of 00:41, 4 October 2023

Survey, or, as he styled himself later, Josiah Samuel Smith, was a long-lived being involved in Light's survey of ancient Earth.

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

Josiah changed form to match the dominant species of the planet, leaving behind still-mobile and at least partially sentient Husks.

With Light temporarily dormant, he adopted the form of a Victorian gentleman, living in the mansion called Gabriel Chase in Perivale, which had a cellar in which Light's ship resided. By 1883, Josiah was the owner of Gabriel Chase, and with Mrs Pritchard and his "ward" Gwendoline, servant Nimrod and house guest/prisoner Redvers Fenn-Cooper, whom he trained as an assassin, presided over a distorted version of a well-to-do 19th century household.

Josiah planned to take over the British Empire by having Fenn-Copper murder Queen Victoria, using an invitation to meet her that he had somehow obtained. The plan was thwarted when Redvers decided to take Control instead. After Control reverted Josiah to his former unevolved state as a form of punishment, he left Earth with the others in Light's ship. (TV: Ghost Light)

Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]

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